This is a condensed version of Star Army Damage Rating, Version 3 article. It is meant to be consulted by anyone already aware of how SADRv3 functions and just wants to have a quick overview of the guidelines.

For more information, see Damage Rating (Version 3)#Tiers.

For more information, see Damage Rating (Version 3)#Attacks.

Using a weapon in the same tier as its target means that the weapon is capable of putting the target out of combat in a single well-placed attack. It is potentially lethal. A weapon can cause damage up to four steps above its tier. Each step above reduces the damage it can cause since the target is bigger, heavier, or better protected. We also rate overkill in four steps. It can be visualized as follows:

What you need to take from this is that you cause less damage to harder targets than your weapon was intended to take down and more damage to targets softer than that. If the gap becomes too wide in disfavor of the weapon, it won't do much of anything - but too wide in favor of the weapon means lots of overkill.

An armor's or barrier's resilience and stopping power is defined by the tier its unit is part of.

For more information, see Damage Rating (Version 3)#Barrier.

Here's a table that shows on the rightmost column how much incoming damage could deplete barriers:

Barrier technology comes in a few shapes in terms of deployment and management. The common ones include:

Barrier facings can be transferred to replenish depleted ones. Transfering power over the “standard” capacity of 100% can be safely done up to 200%; going beyond that risks damaging the barrier system from prolonged overloads and feedback-induced blowouts.

When not being fired on, barrier regeneration can safely occur at a rate of 50% every 10 to 15 seconds (3% to 5% per second, depending on rate of activity) or by actions from roleplayers. Depleting a barrier by excess causes an overload which renders that barrier facing inoperable for 15 seconds while the barrier emitter is reset. Transferring reserve power from things such as power armor capacitors can jump-start a power armor's barrier.

For more information, see Damage Rating (Version 3)#Armor.

Shields are made of heavier plating than the unit using it, thus its resilience can be treated being one step above the tier of the unit holding it. For example, the M6 Daisy's Zesuaium shield can cope with attacks as a medium power armor (Tier 5) target would. Damage to the shield is treated separately from the power armor or mecha holding it: having a shield does not upgrade a power armor or mecha's defense tier; instead, it is treated as a different location to damage that is tougher than the rest.

Here's a list of commonly seen materials in SARP, along with a short blurb of how they stand out.

Units that are not actually armored take damage one step worse than usual for their tier.

For more information, see Damage Rating (Version 3)#Examples of Use.

Example of damage on a light personnel (Tier 1) target, such as a policeman in riot armor:

Example of damage on a heavy personnel (Tier 3) target, such as a Unique in a full-body hardsuit:

Example of damage on a light armor (Tier 4) target, such as a Ke-M2-4a "Mindy" Power Armor:

Example of damage on a medium starship (Tier 11) target, such as a Ke-S3-2e Plumeria-class Medium Gunship:

Fred created this article on 2016/12/31 19:27; Wes approved it on 2017/0/1/03 18:55. updated it on 2018/08/19 09:15 after receiving approval from Wes on 2018/08/19 09:06.